Best Movies of 20th Century 1st Half by Rank
2807
769
1943
Perce Pearce, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter
Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Documentary / Animation / War
USA
English
2807
769
1932
unknown
Patsy Kelly, Roy Fant, Judy Garland, Marjorie Beebe, Janet Reade
Short / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2807
769
1919
Lambert Hillyer
William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Lloyd Bacon, Leo Pierson
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1927
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
769
1949
Jack Hannah, Jack King
Clarence Nash, Ronald Colman, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2807
769
1928
Frank Capra
Mitchell Lewis, Alice Day, Margaret Livingston, Theodore von Eltz, William Bailey
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1929
William Watson
Billy Bevan, Dot Farley, Otto Fries, Natalie Joyce, Will King, Jean Harlow
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
769
1934
Norman Taurog
Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2807
769
1911
Gaston Méliès
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
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2807
769
1926
William A. Seiter
Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Melbourne MacDowell, Frances Raymond, Otis Harlan
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1925
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Lucien Littlefield, Jane Sherman, Buddy the Dog
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1940
George Marshall
Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft, Broderick Crawford
Western
USA
English
2807
769
1948
Lewis Seiler
Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2807
769
1921
Emile Chautard
Lucy Cotton, Charles A. Stevenson, Philip Merivale, Robert Barrat, Mabel Archdale
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1925
Reginald Barker
Claire Windsor, Pat O'Malley, Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, William Eugene
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1927
William K. Howard
Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thomson, George Bancroft, George Nichols, Bob Perry
Western / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1924
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2807
769
1923
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery, Alfred Allen
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1945
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2807
769
1925
George B. Seitz
Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., George Magrill
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1927
Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller
Charles R. Bowers
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1930
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Jiqun Liu, Lingyu Ruan
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2807
769
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1945
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
769
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
769
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
769
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
769
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2807
769
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
769
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2809
770
1932
Clarence Brown
Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
770
1922
Sidney Franklin
Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis, Glenn Hunter
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
770
1926
Cecil B. DeMille
William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Robert Edeson, Victor Varconi, Julia Faye
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
770
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2813
771
1929
Raoul Walsh
Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Leila Karnelly, El Brendel
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2817
772
1932
John M. Stahl
Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde, George Meeker, Zasu Pitts
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2817
772
1922
Elmer Clifton
Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, William Walcott, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2817
772
1929
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2817
772
1927
Edwin Carewe
Rod La Rocque, Dolores del Rio, Rita Carewe, Marc McDermott, Lucy Beaumont
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2817
772
1926
Millard Webb
John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin, Sam Baker
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2817
772
1944
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
2820
773
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
2821
774
1924
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2821
774
1925
Ernst Lubitsch
Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, Clara Bow, Willard Louis
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2821
774
1930
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, Harrington Reynolds, Reginald Sheffield, Betty Lawford
Drama
USA
English
2821
774
1922
Frank Lloyd
Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2824
775
1934
Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2824
775
1945
Otto Preminger
Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2837
776
1935
David Butler
Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
Family / Drama
USA
English
2837
776
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2839
777
1933
Ernst Lubitsch
Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Darwell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2843
779
1937
Ernst Lubitsch
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2858
780
1937
Michal Waszynski
Avrom Morevski, Isaac Samberg, Moyshe Lipman, Lili Liliana, Leon Liebgold
Fantasy / Romance
Poland
Yiddish
2858
780
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2858
780
1923
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2860
781
1949
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
781
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2860
781
1933
Yu Sun
Zhanfei Gao, Li-li Li, Juanjuan Ye, Congmei Yuan
Drama
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2860
781
1931
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
2860
781
1932
Oscar Micheaux
Grace Smith, Carl Mahon, Juano Hernandez, Bud Harris
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2860
781
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
2860
781
1932
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Petr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, L. Nenasheva
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2860
781
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
2860
781
1934
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2860
781
1938
Marcel Carné
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty
Drama
France
French
2860
781
1938
Abel Gance
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Jean-Max
Drama / Horror / War
France
French
2860
781
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
781
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2860
781
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
2860
781
1913
D.W. Griffith
Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry, Charles West
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
781
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2860
781
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
2860
781
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
781
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2860
781
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
781
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2860
781
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2860
781
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
NR
-
1943
Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1939
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice
Comedy / Family / Musical
USA
English
NR
-
1941
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
Comedy / Musical / Western / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1926
Dick Smith
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1934
Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen
Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed
Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1943
Dave Fleischer, Dan Gordon, Isadore Sparber, Seymour Kneitel
Jack Mercer, Margie Hines, Dave Barry, William Pennell, Tedd Pierce, Gilbert Mack
Animation / Short / Musical / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
NR
-
1947
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1938
William A. Seiter
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson
Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1941
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
